Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Theodore L. Moritz was trained in the school of political circus master: he was secretary to Mayor McNair of Pittsburgh. Last autumn he got his diploma in clowning: Pittsburgh elected him to Congress. Last week connoisseurs, who expected much of his political antics, discovered to their surprise that the first bill introduced by Mr. Moritz contained the seeds of great good sense...
...their motionless bandwagon seats. Significantly last week it became known that His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad, ''Richest Man In The World," now thinks he was "coerced" into approving Federation. Last week at New Delhi the trained seals of the Legislative Assembly pained Viceregal Seal-master Willingdon by voting 74 to 58 that the basic principle of All-India Federation is "fundamentally bad and totally unacceptable to the people of British India...
...June 26, 1933, Captain Taudien & friends boarded the stinking but seaworthy Chinese cargo steamer Sheng An near Tientsin. Cried her Russian master Captain Boris Vikhmann, "Ah, my good friend Captain Taudien, this voyage will be a joy!" In five minutes the German had persuaded the Russian to trust him and his friends for their passage money to Foochow (1,500 miles), where the Sheng An was to deliver a cargo of coal...
While all the matches were distinguished by fast play, that between Germain G. Glidden '36 and Cross of the U.B.C. was the outstanding one of the afternoon. By superior reach and many excellent drop shots, Glidden showed himself the master of his opponent, ending his set with a score...
Last year's issue, edited almost entirely by James W. Tower '35, included stories of House dances and sports as well as a character sketch of the House Master Julian L. Coolidge...